Emmie's first Lemonade Stand

A couple weeks ago, our neighborhood had a HUGE garage sale, so we took advantage of all the traffic and put together Emmie's first lemonade stand. It was a huge hit - she loved it, and she sold a whopping 25 cups of lemonade! She immediately took her hard-earned cash and visited one of the garage sales, where she found a brand new Dorothy barbie doll, complete with Toto and light-up ruby slippers! What a fun day.

Our new favorite restaurant - Zeek's!

I love this pic of Nate and Emmie, so I had to go ahead and post it. We have a brand new pizza place that opened up right in our neighborhood - Zeek's! We can easily walk there, and it's so much fun, Emmie loves how they give all the kids a piece of pizza dough to play with and there is a huge glass window to watch them tossing the dough and making the pizza. This is now Emmie's go-to restaurant if we ask where she wants to eat!

Emmie's dance solo!

Demonstrating how much Emmie is overcoming her shyness, she did this cute little solo in front of her whole dance class recently. I didn't even have to push her to do it, she was a willing participant!

Hayden is 8 months!

Wow, has it been a big month for our little munchkin! She is starting to crawl, her first two teeth are ready to pop through any second now, she is waving hi and bye-bye, and her little personality just continues to get better and better! Thankfully, her screeching phase seems to have come to an end, so we can all hear a bit better now!

Our little baby is growing up before our eyes, and we are loving it all. She is just so sweet and good natured, and really only cries when she is hungry or tired. Otherwise, she just smiles and smiles. And boy is she active! She does the funniest thing when we hold her up with her legs dangling, she runs in place and it's almost constant! The girl never stays still, and puts literally everything in her mouth, yikes. When she really gets the hang of crawling, we are going to be in trouble!!

Looking a little mischevious - trying to escape!

I made the mistake of taking these pictures when she was overtired, so we didn't get many good ones!

Demonstrating her crawling position!

And showing us how she will never lay flat - always rolling or moving.

Visit from great-grandparents and Auntie's graduation

Nate's grandparents came from Arizona last week to see the girls and attend Erin's master's graduation. We had lots of fun seeing them!

Last day of preschool

Emmie's last day of preschool included a show for all the parents with singing and dancing - so cute! Emmie grew soooo much this past year, both physically, socially and emotionally! I cringe and get tears in my eyes when I think of her on her first day of preschool, but she has come so far since then! Our shy, shy little girl started out the year having a hard time talking to anyone she didn't know, but she has grown so much and loves to chat with kids at the park or anywhere else! She went from not letting go of us when we dropped her off at school, to running off and barely noticing we were gone! We are so proud of her, and can't wait to see what next year brings when she starts her new school, The Children's Garden!

Wildflowers!

We have a beautiful new pond and walking trail near our house, and the wildflowers were recently in bloom, so we took advantage of the beautiful colors and grandma Betty's photography skills and got a few great shots!